Staff Accountant

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Uses general ledger accounting software to prepare financial statements, budgets and reports for internal use.

• Prepares general ledger entries on a daily basis.

• Maintains policy and procedures manuals.

• Analyzes general ledger accounts to identify unusual or irregular transactions and makes recommendations to resolve.

• Reconciles general ledger accounts, prepares analyses and completes other monthly general ledger closing procedures.

• Prepares reports of financial information for management.

• Prepares information and responds to internal/external auditor requests.

• Reviews property level financials and inputs into accounting software.

• Identifies and recommends process improvements to increase efficiency in processing or analyzing financial information.

• Limited responsibility for resolving routine accounting problems.

• Allocates costs to individual organizational entities and analyzes the impact of cost allocation on individual financial statements.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge of

• Fundamental accounting concepts, practices and procedures.

• Accrual based accounting practices.

• Accounting software packages or ability to learn specific applications.

• Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Skill in

• Analyzing and resolving balance discrepancies.

• Reviewing and interpreting financial information.

• Identifying unusual transaction and accounting discrepancies.

• Preparing financial statements, budgets and management reports.

• Preparing and posting journal entries.

• Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets and databases.

Ability to

• Identify and recommend changes to standard procedures when required by specific situations and circumstances.

• Identify and recommend solutions to moderately complex accounting problems.

• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels.

• Organize, manage and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.

• Provide a high level of customer service.

Education/Previous Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) in Accounting.

• Two (2) years’ experience preferred.

• OR ~

• Any equivalent combination of experience, education and/or training approved by Human Resources.

Licenses/Certifications

• None Required.

Travel Required: No